1964 · drama
Woman in the Dunes
Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara2h 27m1964
A vacationing entomologist suffers extreme physical and psychological trauma after being taken captive by the residents of a poor seaside village and made to live with a woman whose life task is shoveling sand for them.
Our read: Woman in the Dunes (1964) reads as a sombre, slow-burn, surreal drama entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, slow-burn, measured drama, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- slow-burn
- intense
- inventive
- cold
- signature
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